Today's session consisted of a class discussion and analysis of Marshall McLuhan's Text - "The Medium is The Message". We listened to see some interesting audio and watch some various videos of Marshall McLuhan e.g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7GvQdDQv8g.
If you visit the Stu-Shared Section on the university computers, there is a useful Powerpoint Presentation which Michael (Our Tutor) put up for us. This presentation on Marshall McLuhan has various very useful links on.
We each were given a chapter of 'The Medium is the Message' to analyse, which we presented to each other. I was happy with my analysis, considering we only had an hour to read a chapter of such theoretical and complex ideology.
Today's session was useful in terms of improving our critcal and cultural evaluation and analysis, I hope to read the the whole of McLuhan's "Medium is the Message" so I can fully understand his theories. I have this his theories intriguing, especially considering how his theories related so much to the future of technology (which directly links to our project - Design Futures).
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Apart from this useful study in the morning, I had some major input into my sketchbook and got down a few more of my "potential" ideas:
1) Interactive DJ (Like the Microsoft Surface and a DJ interface put together e.g.
2) Sport & Technology - Robotic Referee's (see sketchbook)
3) Sport & Health - Fitness Trainer with Biosensor (Bit like a Mash Up).
These three ideas are clearly explained in my sketchbook, I must remember to put some research into my sketchbook on "Mash-Ups" as these are extremely useful concepts in relation to our brief e.g. the combination of different softwares or technologies like Google Mash Ups (http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ - image screnshot below)
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